Your shiny new ideas may be the very thing preventing you from making your best ideas happen.
Think about it: you’ve got a really clever idea you want to implement for your business, and you’ve made a great start. But then along comes a networking event or a conference, a new book or a new conversation and then lo! you’ve got yourself another new and completely different idea. This new idea has allure and charm. It’s enticing and sexy.
You start flirting with this new idea, and the honeymoon with your original idea begins to fade. Then, before you know it, you’ve worked yourself into a series of ‘modern’ relationships with new ideas – quickly moving from one idea to the next, only spending time with them while it’s exciting, but never enough for there to be any meaningful progress.
This is a tricky situation to be in. As Thomas Edison once said, “Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.” New ideas actually help us avoid the 99% bit, but perspiration (effort) is exactly what we need if we want to get our ideas where they need to go – reality.
The good news is that there’s a way out. Here are some simple tips for maintaining healthy relationships with ideas:
Get good at ruthlessly prioritizing your ideas.
Comment by Roberta Budvietas on Feb 24, 2011
Make sure that your idea fits your purpose and will contribute to your vision too.
Ideas are cheap but boy bringing them to fruition can be costly.
Thanks for the article